CVE-2011-0727

Description

GNOME Display Manager (gdm) 2.x before 2.32.1 allows local users to change the ownership of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) dmrc or (2) face icon file under /var/cache/gdm/.

Risk Information

Base Score

9.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.064

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-libs-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-libs-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-plugin-fingerprint-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-plugin-fingerprint-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-plugin-smartcard-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-plugin-smartcard-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-user-switch-applet-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.i686.rpm	Linux
(RHSA-2011:0395) Moderate: gdm security update gdm-user-switch-applet-2.30.4-21.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234